Oil painting The breeze brings peace Oleksiy Ivanyuk

№AAA5087

The oil painting on Cardboard titled "The Breeze Brings Peace" is a vibrant and emotive expression of nature’s gentle, healing power. With confident impasto technique and a rich palette of bold yet harmonious colors, the artist creates a scene that is both full of life and profoundly serene. The composition is a visual symphony of light and movement, where every brushstroke seems to echo the soft rhythm of a summer breeze flowing through a peaceful countryside. In the foreground, a cascade of yellow foliage bursts across the lower portion of the painting like sunlight made solid. The flowers and grasses, rendered in sweeping gestures of lemon yellow, gold, and lime, dance in harmony with the unseen breeze, their textures thick and tactile. These forms are not carefully outlined but rather suggested through energetic strokes and color interplay, capturing the natural spontaneity of a field stirred by wind. The vibrant brushwork brings to life the feeling of motion—not dramatic or forceful, but soothing and melodic. Beyond this golden carpet lies a darker band of cool green, where small forms of grazing animals, possibly sheep or cows, dot the landscape. Their rounded bodies in shades of indigo, red, and black provide a striking contrast to the surrounding yellow and green. The presence of these animals adds a layer of calmness and continuity, grounding the viewer in a pastoral setting untouched by haste. Their arrangement across the field seems almost choreographed, evoking the rhythm of everyday rural life—a quiet, persistent peace shaped by the land itself. The central and upper portions of the composition are dominated by towering trees painted in earthy browns, deep olives, and touches of violet. Their trunks rise like silent guardians of the landscape, their forms slightly abstract and fluid, softened by the light and movement surrounding them. The canopies of these trees, illuminated by hints of cream and lemon, echo the energy of the foreground foliage while anchoring the composition in vertical strength. Behind the trees, purple hills roll gently across the middle ground, their deep tones suggesting distance and quietude. These hills, brushed in soft yet deliberate strokes, lead the eye upward toward a tranquil sky—a luminous expanse of turquoise and aqua brushed with pastel clouds.

*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "The breeze brings peace"
* ARTISTS: Oleksiy Ivanyuk
* SIZE: 15x20 cm/'5.90x7.87 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, cardboard
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artist: Born March 13, 1954, in the city of Piryatin, Poltava region. He graduated from the Art College named after N. Samokish (1887). Teachers in the specialty: V. Grigoriev, M. Morgun, L. Gracer. Painter. The main genres are landscape, still life. The paintings are distinguished by emotional openness, warmth, affirm the harmony of life. Dominants of creativity are the deep roots of national traditions, Ukrainian cultural heritage. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (2008). He taught fine art at the Pyryatinsky school - gymnasium of aesthetic education (1988-2008). At creative work. Participated in exhibitions: national and international (since 1978). Personal exhibitions - in Kiev (2003, 2007-2009), Lubny (Poltava region, California (USA; 2006), Poltava (2007, 2010), Priluki (Chernihiv region, 2008), Warsaw (2009). Main works: “Flowers field ”(2007),“ Still life with a daffodil ”(2004),“ Indian summer ”(2007),“ Birch ”,“ Spiral panychi ”,“ Kalina red ”(2004),“ Field of the sun ”,“ Apple blossom ”, “Evening Breath” (2005), “Silence”, “Summer” (2006), “Sunflowers” (2007), “Plowed Field”, “Such is Life ...”, “In the Garden” (2009), “It's Cold” (2010). Individual paintings are stored in the National Museum of Art, National U. T. Shevchenko, Museum of Cultural Heritage in Kiev, Poltava Museum of Local Lore, lived and worked in the city of Poltava.